91302 - plugins simply do not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69167

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[josh]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628
BuildID:    2001062823

plugins (jave, shockwave) are present in the plugins directory but are not seen
by mozilla browser either in help/about plug-ins or by any web site that
requires them. 

directory list :

ls -ld plugins
drwx------    3 root     root          288 Jul  6 12:31 plugins/

 cd plugins
# ls -l
total 960
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2363 Jul  6 12:27 ShockwaveFlash.class*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1879 Jul  6 12:28 install.js*
drwxr-xr-x    6 root     root          320 Jul  6 12:28 java2/
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       947992 Jul  6 12:28 libflashplayer.so*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           44 Jul  6 12:31 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
java2/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18904 Jun 28 23:54 libnullplugin.so*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          248 Jul  6 12:28 symlink.sh*

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.point browser at web site
2.Help/ About Plug-ins
3.

Actual Results:  Only the default null plugin is seen as installed

Expected Results:  Use the plugins like 0.8 did ok

Mandrake Linux 8.0 installed. Mozilla upgraded several times by moving old
directory to one side and freshly installing, then copy plugins directory to new
mozillahome.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> drwx------    3 root     root          288 Jul  6 12:31 plugins/

You _are_ running as root right?  Otherwise those permissions need loosening....

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

1) erase mozilla
2) unpack a mozilla build in your $home dir
3) go into that dir
4) su to get root
5) ./mozilla-installer
6) After installing, (/usr/local/mozilla is good) put the plugins as root
7) A normal user should be able to USE them

[espectro@fjl espectro]$ ls -l /usr/local/mozilla/plugins/
total 1124
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jul 17 14:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 Jul 17 11:21 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         7380 Jul 17 11:22 README
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8748 Jul 17 11:22 ReadMe.htm
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         2363 Jul 17 11:22 ShockwaveFlash.class
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       947992 Jul 17 11:22 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           57 Jul 17 11:22 libjavaplugin_oji.so ->
/usr/java/jre1.3.1/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so*
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        18904 Jul 17 05:56 libnullplugin.so*
-r--r--r--    1 root     root         4139 Jul 17 14:25 raclass.zip
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       129088 Jul 17 14:25 rpnp.so*

This is mandrake 8 too, so no excuses

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Francisco, are you saying that this works for you?  Or that you're seeing this
problem too?

Comment 4

[Francisco León]

Sorry for not being more explicit
WFM

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->plugins.

Comment 6

[Con Kolivas]

This is a duplicate of bug 69167

Comment 7

[Rui M. Silva Seabra]

I view java with tha java plugin, flash, and multimedia contend with plugger.

Plugins work quite well with me, oh, and btw, they are links to the real plugins
in netscape 4.77's plugin dir.

Comment 8

[josh]

Hi All

Thanks for the responses. I have found a workaround (back refs to other calls
helped here):

cd /usr/lib/mozilla
ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libXt.so

Now a Mozilla session is quite happy with the plugins. 

Don't know which is the best way to fix this permanently. Maybe a search for the
libraries in the install script. At least a meaningfull error message could be
dumped to syslog ??

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69167 ***

Comment 9

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"